Provide dstorage.h header in C compatible way
mmozeiko opened this issue · 2 comments
Please consider providing dstorage.h header in C compatible way.
Whole Direct3D12 API can be accessed from C just fine as COM declarations are properly generated in Windows SDK.
Please consider doing the same. Windows SDK headers provide macros that makes writing COM interfaces compatible with C and C++ code very easily.
This will help not only C developers but will also make interfacing from other languages more obvious as C has guarantees about ABI. But in C++ it is a mess.
Don't make same mistakes as Direct2D and DirectWrite teams did: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220113-00/?p=106152
The Direct2D header files are generated by a custom tool, not by the MIDL compiler. The Direct2D team regret this decision,
I have run into two concrete cases that support this issue. First, custom tools exist that parse the C-style header and generate wrapper interfaces, which are used to transparently add functionality and instrumentation to an app automagically in a manner similar to how ReShade wraps DXGI / D3D devices. The second is a domain-specific language that transpiles to C and allows use of COM interfaces.
A uniform, predictable standard helps.
We plan to ship Win32Metadata winmd files as part of the nuget package in the near future. As it is now, win32metadata can parse dstorage.h.